Book of Poetry for Children

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SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY
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ILLUSTRATED BY
Arnold Lobel
opening Poems for Each Section
Especially Written for This Anthology
by Jack Prelutsky
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Livingston. Copyright ©1980 by Myra Cohn Livingston. AMargaret K.
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“Opening poems for each section especially don.
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C O N T E N T S
Windy Nights 27 The Moon’s the North
Introduction 1 8
Robert Louis Stevenson Wind’s Cooky 32
Who Has Seen the Wind? 27 Vachel Lindsay
Christina Rossetti The Star 33
Mountain Brook 28 Jane Taylor
Nature Is ... 2 1
Elizabeth Coatsworth Night Comes 33
Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
Auguries of Innocence 22 River Winding 28
William Blake Charlotte Zolotow Night 33
Mary Ann Hoberman
Water’s Edge 28
All Things Bright and
Lillian Morrison Silver 33
Beautiful 22
Cecil Frances Alexander Mud 28 Walter de la Mare
Polly Chase Boyden The Night Is aBig Black Cat 33
I’m Glad the Sky Is
G. Orr Clark
Painted Blue 22 The Muddy Puddle 28
Anonymous Dennis Lee
The Universe 22 Sea Shell 29
The Four Seasons 35
Amy Lowell
Mary Britton Miller
The Sea 29
Measurement 23 The Months 36
A. M. Sullivan Anonymous
Sara Coleridge
Until ISaw the Sea 29
On the Bridge 23 Four Seasons 36
Lilian Moore
Kate Greenaway
Anonymous
Flint 23 The Rain Has Silver
January 36
Christina Rossetti Sandals 29
John Updike
May Justus
The Wolf Cry 24 Martin Futher King 37
Lew Sarett Rain Clouds 30 Myra Cohn Livingston
The Secret Song 24 Elizabeth-Ellen Long Fincoln 37
Margaret Wise Brown To Walk in Warm Rain 30 Nancy Byrd Turner
Fast Rites 24 David McCord Ground Hog Day 37
Christina Rossetti Rhyme 30 Lilian Moore
Trees 24 Elizabeth Coatsworth
Beyond Winter 38
Sara Coleridge The More It Snows 30 Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Crocus 25 A. A. Milne
Valentine 38
Walter Crane First Snow 31 Shel Silverstein
Dandelion 25 Marie Louise Allen
Ice 38
Hilda Conkling When All the World Is Charles G. D. Roberts
The Ferns 25 Full of Snow 31
Washington 39
Gene Baro N. M. Bodecker
Nancy Byrd Turner
Birch Trees 25 Stopping By Woods on Smells 39
John Richard Moreland aSnowy Evening 31 Kathryn Worth
Robert Frost
Wind-Wolves 26 February Twilight 39
William D. Sargent The Snowflake 32 Sara Teasdale
Walter de la Mare
The Wind 26 Paper Dragons 40
James Reeves Check 32 Susan M. Schmeltz
JamesS tephens
Mountain Wind 26 Maple Feast 40
Barbara Kunz Loots Frances Frost